Ellen Forney Quotes
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I can paint in jail.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.
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I lost two brothers in an airplane crash, both of them leaving a wife and kids. When I get to Heaven, that's probably the first question I'd like to ask: 'Why was it necessary?'
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
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I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.
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There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know.
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I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.
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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
